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From: Charles Sullivan <>
Subject: Re: [NYC] Re :History relived, it's effects on our lives even today
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 23:22:47 -0500


The events described were what led up to the what is called the potato
famine. The Irish were fairly prolific and leaseholds were subdivided
over and over again for the sons. The wonderfully nutritious potato
made it possible to feed a family on a very small plot of land. But when
the blight devastated the potato crop during the 1840s the results were
disastrous. The whole thing is quite complex however.

Those intersted in pursuing may wish to read a classic work on the
subject: "The Great Hunger" by Cecil Woodham-Smith (1962).

Regards,
Charles Sullivan

Marion G Snedecor <> wrote:
>Charles,
>
>Thank you so very much for the information about Ireland and the very bad
>times that they have been suffering through. Somehow I was quite
>ignorant of what had been going on there in those earlier times. I had
>always thought that it was the terrible potato famine that had caused so
>many to flee Ireland for better life. Apparently it was not the whole
>story.
>
>When we studied history in school I have been finding out that we had
>been handed a very shortened and sterilized version of what had really
>happened. This seems to also be true of the happenings between the
>colonists and Indians, too. How much more of our history has been
>cleaned up and distorted? Even today we are spoon fed what certain
>powers want us to find out and what they don't want us to know gets swept
>under the rug. Today it still goes on and special interests control some
>of our polititians and the press. It is very hard to ascertain the
>truth, if that is possible.
>
>History has had a domino effect and makes itself felt for generations to
>come. The study of genealogy combined with history is most enlightening.
> I never thought of it in that way when first starting my research.
>Thank you, Charles, for your fine contribution to general knowledge and
>understanding.
>
>Marion
>
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